Juneau International Airport (IATA: JNU, ICAO: PAJN, FAA LID: JNU) is a city-owned, public-use airport and seaplane base located seven nautical miles (8 mi, 13 km) northwest of the central business district of Juneau,[1] a city and borough in the U.S. state of Alaska which has no direct road access.
[7] During the 1950s, Pacific Northern Airlines (PNA, the successor of Woodley Airways) served the airport with Douglas DC-4 and Lockheed Constellation propliners with daily service to Seattle with a stop at Annette Island as well as nonstop to Anchorage and Yakutat and direct to Cordova in Alaska.
[12] By 1969, Alaska Airlines was operating Boeing 727-100 jet service into the airport on a daily basis with a round trip route of Seattle - Sitka - Juneau - Yakutat - Cordova - Anchorage - Unalakleet - Nome - Kotzebue.
[14] Besides operating jet service into Juneau, Alaska Airlines also flew smaller prop and turboprop aircraft from the airport in the past including the Convair 240, de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter and two versions of the Grumman Goose amphibian aircraft, being a piston powered model and a turboprop version with the latter being named the "Turbo-Goose" by the airline.
[15] In 1968, Wien was operating Fairchild F-27 turboprop flights into the airport three days a week on a route of Juneau - Whitehorse - Fairbanks.
[19] After its acquisition of and merger with Western in 1987, Delta Air Lines continued to serve Juneau with daily nonstop Boeing 727-200 flights to Seattle and direct, one stop service to Los Angeles into the early 1990s.
[1] For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2017, the airport had 108,885 aircraft operations, an average of 298 per day: 79% air taxi, 12% general aviation, 8% scheduled commercial, and <1% military.